The pure mind, the world turns friendly
Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha · About Sant Tukaram
मराठी मूळ
अनघडसिद्धाच्या शब्देंकरून रामेश्वरभटाच्या शरीरीं दाह जाला तो ज्यानें शमला तो अभंग ॥ 1 ॥
चित्त शुद्ध तरी शत्रु मित्र होती । व्याघ्र हे न खाती सर्प तया ॥1॥
विष तें अमृत अघातें हित । अकर्तव्य नीत होय त्यासी ॥ध्रु.॥
दुःख तें देईल सर्व सुख फळ । होतील शीतळ अिग्नज्वाळा ॥2॥
आवडेल जीवां जीवाचे परी । सकळां अंतरीं एक भाव ॥3॥
तुका ह्मणे कृपा केली नारायणें । जाणियेते येणें अनुभवें ॥4॥
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
When the mind is pure, enemies become friends, tigers do not devour and serpents do not bite. Poison turns to nectar, harm turns to help, and what was forbidden becomes auspicious. Suffering will yield the fruit of all happiness, and the flames of fire will become cool. Every being will love such a person as its own life, and one feeling will pervade every heart. Says Tuka, this I know from experience, for Narayana has shown His grace.
We ask forgiveness for any inaccuracies in rendering Tukaram ji’s original Marathi.
In Plain Words
When the mind is pure, enemies turn into friends; tigers do not eat such a one, serpents do not bite. Poison becomes nectar, harm becomes help, what was forbidden becomes right for him. Suffering will give him the fruit of all happiness; the flames of fire will turn cool. Every living thing will love him as its own life, and one feeling will fill every heart. Tuka says: Narayana has shown his grace; I know this from my own experience.
What it means
Tukaram describes what happens when the heart is fully cleansed: the whole hostile world reverses its face. Enemies become friends, beasts and serpents lose their menace, poison turns to nectar, fire turns cool. He is not promising magic tricks but naming a single law, that a mind without enmity meets no enmity, and even suffering ripens into the fruit of joy. He grounds the claim in lived testimony, not theory: Narayana gave him this grace, and he speaks of what he has actually known.
The Moral Ideal
Purity, sincerity, truthfulness, humility, peacefulness, and service.
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